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mayhair @discuss.tchncs.de

6mo ago

Nose Ears #20: Proprietary Social Media

https://wuzzy.neocities.org/comic/20/

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Bluesky 5 years from now
- I've had it happen several times, actually. Almost unilaterally it's due to the other party believing that open source means less secure.
  They never care to hear evidence otherwise, either.
- uhm yeah, especially if you're young. all my friends laugh at me.
  
  sadfasfsadfd
- My brother and I both do some hobby digital design, and I get clowned on hard as fuck for using Gimp instead of Photoshop.
It’s all about polish. That’s how AOL chat rooms lured the masses from BBS, and AIM replaced IRC as the mainstream messaging service back in the late 90s.
- Meh, you can only polish a turd so much. I would like to point out that AIM no longer exists but IRC does.
  I think what you really mean is marketing. Also, I think you rely on a false equivalency that popular = better.
  
  Yes, but the majority of people that left AIM went to Friendster or MySpace.
  You and I obviously have the same preference or we’d be having this conversation on Reddit. I was really just referring to mass appeal versus quality.
- Except everything has been getting worse for a while now

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